Good practice reminders

Be patient: allow students to retrieve their phones, participate, and give them time to reflect on the questions you've posed. You can observe the number of votes coming in on your monitor, located on the slide's bottom right corner.

Prepare your students: Consider adding a slide before each question slide that announces it, or include a line or image on the preceding slide that alerts students to get their devices ready.

Remind students of the ways to login: Share the room joining number displayed at the top of the slide verbally, and/or point to it for clarity. If using the QR code, give students ample time to access it.

• Some students may opt to join using their laptops, so will need the room number to join

• Select settings in Mentimeter that displays all slides to participants on their own devices

• Before implementing your slides in a classroom setting, test them out to ensure the settings align with your intended purpose.

Intended purpose: do you have good reasons to ask questions? Check our Mentimeter purpose matrix of suggested uses.

• the purpose of using live polling should be (or become) understandable to students within the context of your teaching.

• Students are sensitive to use of technology that does not have great relevance

• be sure to react to the results, even if only to acknowledge them in the moment

• if you are asking students feedback questions at the end, be sure to respond to those as well, even if only to acknowledge receipt of them.